Very funny--this was sent as a text message from your Blackberry, huh? Please do tell all of us how this pans out.
Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:55:25 +0000 >From: ku...@plymouth.edu >Subject: Re: [tips] It's that plagiarism time of year again... >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> > >I HOPE the 2 students did not conspire. The better student is one of our best >majors. But cell phones are becoming a problem. I've emailed both and I'll try >to settle this quickly. I'm going to explicitely ban them next semester. The >only cell phone incident I had recently was when a student in class told me >her mother disagreed about what I had just said in class - she was texting her >mother during class! >Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from U.S. Cellular > >-----Original Message----- >From: Gerald Peterson <peter...@vmail.svsu.edu> >Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:47:24 >To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)<tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> >Subject: Re: [tips] It's that plagiarism time of year again... > > >Did they use cell phones to take a picture of one exam and send to the other? >Apparently, that is becoming a big problem in some classes. That, and texting >each other. I ban cell phones during exams, but it is very hard to police in >large classes. Anyone have a problem with cell phone cheating? Gary > > > > >Gerald L. (Gary) Peterson, Ph.D. >Professor, Department of Psychology >Saginaw Valley State University >University Center, MI 48710 >989-964-4491 >peter...@svsu.edu > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "John Kulig" <ku...@mail.plymouth.edu> >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> >Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:00:04 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >Subject: Re: [tips] It's that plagiarism time of year again... > > >Yes, that time of year again! I have never used Turnitin.com but I want to >introduce another problem I just encountered ... > >Two students in stats both turned in an exam with the exact same multiple >choice answers(35 out of 39 correct, and both the correct AND incorrect >choices were identical). I have never seen this happen before. One student was >aceing the class and the other was on the verge of failing. I have a pretty >solid case of copying not just on this point on other parts of the exam >because the poorer student also had correct AND incorrect answers on the >computation part out to two decimal places (including a "proportion of >variance" effect size of 2.15 which is bogus), all without computation, just >answers written down. Because I am grading non-stop and need a diversion, I am >intrigued with guestimating the probability of the MC being identical on all >39 given no cheating. It's obviously a low probability as my MC scores average >close to "optimal difficulty" level (in the 60 - 70% range), so it's not the >case that most people get most of them correct. > >Anybody ever try to model this problem? I can assume they both knew 35 >answers, get the frequencies of all the wrong answers for the class, and >assume people guess randomly when they don't know. But they only missed 4. I >can also regress this exam on previous exam scores and show that the poor >student getting only 4 wrong is an outlier, but that may not be convincing >enough .. and thoughts would be appreciated. > >If the student were brigher they should have changed a few answers and >scribbled a few computations here and there on the sheet! > >-------------------------- >John W. Kulig >Professor of Psychology >Plymouth State University >Plymouth NH 03264 >-------------------------- > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "DeVolder Carol L" <devoldercar...@sau.edu> >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> >Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:56:53 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >Subject: [tips] It's that plagiarism time of year again... > >Hi, >I have a student who has done poorly on his exams but has turned in a >stunningly good paper. Frankly, I don't think he wrote it but I'm having >difficulty showing that. I have Googled key phrases but nothing has turned up, >so I don't think he copied and pasted, I think he bought it. Can anyone give >me some idea of what Turnitin.com charges for an individual license? It's the >only thing I can think of, other than confronting the student, which will most >likely be my next step. I hate this stuff, it takes so much time and really >takes a toll on my enthusiasm for grading. > >Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. >Carol > > > > >Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. >Professor of Psychology >Chair, Department of Psychology >St. Ambrose University >Davenport, Iowa 52803 > >phone: 563-333-6482 >e-mail: devoldercar...@sau.edu > > > > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
